Major Bagley: So they really got the Arizona.Captain Quincannon: Yes, sir. Hickham Field was hit just as bad as Pearl Harbor..., lot of fifth column work.Major Bagley: I've studied all the wars in history, gentlemen, and I've never come across any dirty treachery like that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am rough ...and lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Sam Tostin: You know I spent a lot of years disliking women. But I don't dislike you.Major Hayward: Don't you?...Sam Tostin: You're different. You're not a woman. You're more than that. You're a mechanic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The past abscondsWith our fortunes just as we were rounding a major...Bend in the swollen river; not to see aheadBecomes the only predicament when whatMight be sunken there is mentioned onlyIn crabbed allusions but will be back tomorrow.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observ...able fact: there are already people around who are clearly meant to serve and they are girls and women. To perform the activities these people are doing is to risk being, and being thought of, and thinking of oneself, as a woman. This has been made a terrifying prospect and has been made to constitute a major threat to masculine identity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

Self-centeredness is a natural outgrowth of one of the toddler's major concerns: What is me and what is mine...? This is why most ...toddlers are incapable of sharing ... to a toddler, what's his is what he can get his hands on.... When something is taken away from him, he feels as though a piece of him--an integral piece--is being torn from him.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually re...peat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »

In movies about women, all important historical and natural events are translated into the terms of a woman's daily life. World Wa...r I is not about the Allies versus the Kaiser. It's about how unmarried women become pregnant when they have sex. The Depression is not about an economic collapse. It's about runs in stockings, no money for carfare, and being forced out into the streets. Natural disasters like earthquakes and cholera epidemics are defined by miscarriages and dying children. Everything is couched in terms of what are presumed to be the major events of a woman's life: men, marriage, motherhood, and all the usual "feminine" things. At the same time that big events are made small, personal, small events are made huge.... Thus, the woman's film is a genre that generously empowers a sex that society has relegated to secondary status.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »